The contradictory truth about bambus decken and infant sleep
My mother-in-law told me I needed to wrap him in three layers of thick wool or he'd catch pneumonia in the middle of a Chicago July. The lactation consultant told me to use absolutely zero fabrics, stick to skin-to-skin only,...
Why bamboo preemie clothes are the only thing you should pack
I'm standing at the warmer in bed spot four, untangling a mess of yellow and blue lead wires. The mother next to me is holding up a standard zero-to-three-month onesie that someone gifted her at a shower she barely got...
Dear Past Priya: The Truth About Bamboo Bassinet Sheets
It's 3:14 AM on a Tuesday in late January. The radiator in our Chicago apartment is clanking like a dying engine. You're standing over the bedside sleeper, holding a screaming, shivering infant who just engineered a blowout of catastrophic proportions....
The Heatwave Guide to Surviving With a Bambus Decke
It was July, the mercury in our top-floor London flat had just breached 35 degrees, and I was sitting on the nursery floor waving a piece of Amazon delivery cardboard over my eight-month-old daughters like a desperate servant in antiquity....
What I Learned After Buying a Blanket With Rainbows for My Twins
We were standing by the dismal puddle that passes for a duck pond in our local park when a woman I had never met touched my arm and gave me a look of deep, teary-eyed solidarity. She was staring intently...
How a simple swaddle blanket saved my sanity with newborn twins
It's 3:14 in the morning on a Tuesday, and I'm standing in our minuscule London kitchen holding a square piece of fabric, desperately trying to remember the origami sequence the NHS midwife showed me a week ago while one of...
Dear Past Priya: The Blanket Size Guide You Should Have Read
You're sitting on the floor of the nursery right now, surrounded by a mountain of folded pastel fabric from the baby shower, crying over a half-eaten samosa. It's 3 AM in Chicago, you're eight months pregnant, and you're trying to...
The Brutal Truth About $35 Baby Bamboo Pajamas: Are They Worth It?
I'm currently staring at four massive plastic bins in my attic labeled "0-6 Months," completely overflowing with stiff, cheap cotton zip-ups that my oldest son wore for exactly two and a half weeks each before his little sausage toes blew...
When Do Babies Sleep 7pm to 7am? A Tired Mom's Truth
It was 3:14 AM on a Tuesday in mid-November, and I was standing in the middle of the nursery wearing a pair of maternity sweatpants that had a questionable yogurt stain on the thigh, rage-scrolling Instagram with my thumb while...